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Hi from Victoria. My son is 11 and he watches your videos on RU-vid all the time. He has quite an impressive shell collection already 🙂 Thank you for continuing to inspire him through your videos.
🙋Hello from south Georgia USA. I truely enjoy your videos. Thanks for taking me a long. Love shell hunting because I love to make shell chimes. Truely awesome finds. I see every shell you missed. Lol Enjoy the ocean and shell hunting for me and stay safe. God bless!
I'm watching you from my home in northern Vermont - still have snowonthegroundanddrifts uo to three feet high.. I am a retired zoo and museum curator and a hobbyist collector of many things, including shells. My particular interests (in shells) are cowries, cone snails, and bonnets. When watching your videos, i sometimes want to yell out loud when you reject a shell on location -- i want to be next to you and grab it back out of the beach wrack or tide pool. My career has taken me over 40 times to the Central and South American tropical rainforests. I've collected 30+ species of Poison Dart frogs bringing them back to my institution - the National Aquarium in Baltimore Maryland. I have caught five Green Anacondas, the largest being 22 feet long, and many other species of amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals. I also collected Atlantic Puffin chicks in Iceland for the North Atlantic Seabirds exhibit. We were the first institution in North America to produce eggs, and ultimately young. After moving to Vermont, my Natural History curatorial position at the Fairbanks Museum and Planetarium had me curating exhibits on marine life, including Mollusks, as well as many other ecological and systematic- focused displays. We have the greatest diversity of mounted (stuffed) hummingbirds in the U.S. - over 60 species. We also have the largest bull Moose ever collected in New England, in 1896, standing six feet high at the shoulder and weighing over 1,500 pounds. Is there anything I could trade with you for some shells? I have lots of common northern Atlantic shells, but also many other items including minerals (amethysts), additional books on mollusks and all manner of naturalhistorysubjects, or a few Vermont license plates, if you were interested. Or, how about some Vermont maple candy or syrup? Your passion is very evident, and I applaud you, as a "youngster," producing your videos. What a great way to learn about mollusks and the other animals that you discover inhabiting the beaches and tide pools. My father was a marine and freshwaterr Biologist, writing scores of books and magazine articles (including five for National Geographic magazine). Look him up - William H. Amos. He and I coauthored National Audubon's "Field Guide to the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts." Wonderful job you are doing; it's great to have an interest you can continue for decades upon decades to come. Keep it up!!!
I know my mom would love to lay on her tummy and grab all the micro shells my favorite are the sanddollars hers would be mitras it sounds like her name her loves watching your videos
I wonder if that big mitre you found is a baby of a different species of mitre rather than a big one of the species you always find? Droop shells - I think you should collect some for your monthly give-aways. The person that receives will have an additional variety of shell. (I hope it's me one day!)
Many seashell collectors do not realize that the shells they are taking could be home to small marine creatures or be important to the life cycle of local endangered species. Removing seashells from the beach can disrupt the natural ecosystem, leading to a decline in biodiversity and the loss of habitats for marine and terrestrial species.
